A journey from Blackburn to Preston, 1830

Join us in The Great Hall at Samlesbury Hall for an exclusive lunchtime lecture by Steven Brindle.

Steven Brindle comes from Blackburn in Lancashire. He read History at Keble College, Oxford, and remained there to study for a doctorate on the architecture of late-medieval Spain, which was granted in 1991. He has worked for English Heritage in a variety of roles since 1989. From 1993–2000 he was an Inspector in the Crown Buildings team and was closely involved in the post-fire restoration of Windsor Castle. He subsequently served as the Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Greater London.

Since 2008 he has been a Senior Properties Historian in the Curatorial Department. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and lectures widely on aspects of the history of architecture and engineering. He has published extensively on these subjects, with major publications including Paddington Station, its History and Architecture (2004), Brunel, the Man who Built the World (2005), and Windsor Castle, a Thousand Years of a Royal Palace (2018, as editor), which won the Historians of British Art’s prize for best multi-authored book.

His latest book, Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830, was published by the Paul Mellon Centre in 2023.

Steven’s presentation will look specifically at the journey from Blackburn to Preston in 1830.